‘Bent’ property manager paid off £234k credit card bill with client cash

A crooked property manager stole more than £500,000 from his clients’ accounts to prop up his company and pay off his vast credit card bills, a court heard. Jeffrey Gadsden, 69, managed the property portfolios of several companies as director of Walker Professional Property Services. But between 2009 and 2013, when the Brentwood company went bust, he started pilfering the cash into his personal and business account. He stole amounts ranging from £8,000 to £150,000 from seven of the company’s…